BBC Worldwide Channels


TBI Kids Survey 2016: which digital service has the most potential?

It seems fair to throw this question to the people running digital services first. Hopster’s Nick Walters selects his own service as the one with most potential, but also sees promise elsewhere. “I think PopJam is really interesting and a promising take on doing social for kids in a way that’s cool, doesn’t condescend, but […]

Buyer’s briefing: BBC Worldwide Channels

Julie Swanston is VP, commissioning for BBC Worldwide Channels. She will commission a minimum of 83 hours of content a year for Brit and Earth, with Liam Keelan, director of scripted, overseeing BBC First. For BBC Brit, she will commission four original, factual-entertainment series across four core key filters: camaraderie, expertise, wit and jeopardy. For BBC Earth, and […]

BBC Worldwide buys into Dominic Monaghan wildlife series

BBC Worldwide’s Global Channels division has come on board the upcoming second season of Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan and will coproduce the travel and wildlife series and show it on its international pay TV networks. Season one of the show was made by Cream Productions, Wildfire Television and BBC America and aired on BBC […]

BBCWW cooks up new lifestyle shows

BBC Worldwide Channels has ordered a pair of cooking series featuring chef Rachel Khoo (above). The 10x25mins shows, Rachel Khoo’s London Food Diary (WT) and Cosmopolitan Cook (WT) will be fully funded by BBCWW Channels, as part of a commitment to increase the number of originally-produced hours on the global network to 100 by 2014. […]

CBeebies, BBC Worldwide join Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures

UK public children’s channel CBeebies and commercial counterpart BBC Worldwide Channels have hooked up to co-commission a new dinosaur-themed factual series featuring presenter Andy Day. The BBC’s Natural History Unit is attached to produce the 20-part Andy’s Dinosaur Adventures, which is a follow up to Day’s previous series, Andy’s Wild Adventures. While that show saw him […]

BBC Knowledge scores Slovenia slot

BBC Worldwide Channels has secured a distribution deal with Telekom Slovenia that will see BBC Knowledge air in Slovenia for the first time. A subtitled feed of BBC Knowledge will join SiOL TV’s Extended Basic IPTV and basic cable subscription packages on April 1 and reach more than 64,000 subscribers. The channel includes top BBC […]

New Belgian pay TV service launches with raft of intn’l channels

Dutch telco KPN has launched a new pay TVservice in Belgium, Snow. The service will combine TV, internet and telephony in a bundled offering, competing with existing providers Telenet and Belgacom. The Snow service will be marketed separately from KPN Belgium’s existing mobile telecom offering in the country, Base. The service offers 33 channels including […]

BBC Worldwide pledges to commission 100hrs of originals in 2014

BBC Worldwide said today that it will be ramping up the number of original programmes that it commissions and will order 100 hours of originals the year after next. The channels division of Worldwide, the commercial arm of the UK public broadcaster, has unveiled a new commissioning strategy, which will be executed by Tracy Forsyth, […]